A soldier living off base enjoys all the rights and benefits of the Second Amendment. Should those natural rights evaporate upon setting foot inside the gates of military bases? Senator Ted Cruz says no.

Our God-given natural rights are in peril. This president, through dictatorial decress (Executive Orders), a Democrat Senate majority and onerous regulations by federal agencies under his power, is on a path to annul each and all of the Bill of Rights. Therefore, I think it important to revisit from whence come our rights.

Where is the outcry over the slaughter of innocent American lives, the equivalent of 100 Newtown massacres each and every day? Perhaps the reason we don't mourn is we don't know their names. Where is the mourning? Where is the outcry to ban the abortionist's tools of the trade?

As do so many Americans, Senator Cornyn associates firearm ownership with hunting and home defense. It's not that these aspects of gun ownership are not valid, the problem is he fails to comprehend why the founding fathers added the Second Amendment.

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